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Connect
to the Management Server

Connect the Management console and Product consoles
to the Management Server using the Select
Management Server dialog box.

You can add, edit and delete listed servers. When
adding or editing a server, provide the friendly name, enter a server
name or IP address and provide the connection type (HTTP, HTTPS) and port
number. You can also browse the network or Active Directory to select
a server.

When connecting, you are prompted for credentials using the current
user account or a custom user for which you need to provide name, password
and domain.

In the product consoles, you connect to the Management
Server when attempting to open a live configuration on a remote computer
or when saving a configuration.

Select Management Server

The dialog allows you to connect to a Management Server and maintain
the list of Management Servers with which you regularly connect.

Settings

New
Server – Click to add a server to the list by providing details
in the Add Server dialog box, including friendly
name, server name (computer name or IP address), connection type and port
number (HTTP/80, HTTPS/443).

The Management Server dialog
prompts you to provide credentials for connecting to the selected server
either using the currently connected user account or a custom user. You
can browse for a user on the active directory or local network, provide
a password and, where appropriate, the domain.

If Remember me
is selected the credentials are cached.

Management
Server

The Management Server
node provides an overview of the Management Center with getting started
points.

The overview has Launch Console buttons for each
of the User Workspace Manager products, Application Control, Environment Manager and Performance Manager.

The lower section of the work area presents a summary
of the connection status of the Management Server and details on deployment
groups, computers and alerts.

Deployment Statistics

For each of the DekstopNow products Application Control, Environment Manager and Performance Manager, data is gathered and reported on in the
following three areas:

Number of agents installed

Number of configurations installed

Polled in Last 30 Days - Number
of computers with an installed agent that have polled the Management Server
within the last 30 days.

Agents and configurations are included in each count if they have a
status of Installed, Pending Uninstall, or Unmanaged.

Connection

Connected
To - Indicates the name of the server the Management console is
connected to.

User
- The name of the user currently logged on. Click the link to view and
edit the server permissions for the current user. Note that you can only
edit if you have permission.

Global
Permissions - The global permissions of the current user. For example,
Modifier and Viewer.

Click the link to display the system wide server
roles.

Deployment Groups

Deployment
Groups - Displays the number of deployment groups defined within
the Management Server.

Deployed
- Displays the number of deployment groups that are deployed.

With
Errors - Displays the number of deployment groups with errors,
for example a failed package deployment.

Computers

All
- Displays the number of managed computers defined in the Management Server.

Deployed
- Displays the number of computers with packages deployed.

Offline
- Displays the number of computers offline. A computer shows as offline
if the Deployment Agent does not poll back within twice the default
poll period.

With
Errors - Displays the number of computers with errors. An error
occurs if an attempt has been made to deploy a package and it has failed.

Click a link to go to the All Computers
view.

Alerts

All
- Displays the total number of alerts.

Alert rules allow you to specify the event criteria
to match with an incoming event to generate an alert. Alert rules allocate
a severity for an alert and matches against the specified event ID. Alert
rules can also match against any value for computer or user to generate
more specific alerts.

Critical
- Displays the number of critical alerts.

New
- Displays the number of new alerts.

New
in Last 24 Hours - Displays the number of new alerts in that have
be generated in last 24 hours.

Click on any of the links to view further detail.

Actions

The Actions panel provides
the following options:

Connect
- Launches the Select Management Server dialog. Select a Management
Server to connect to. If already connected to a Management Server it is
automatically disconnected when another one is selected.

Download
Page(only
available when connected to a Management Server)- Displays the Management Center download page in a web browser.
All available software releases are listed for download.

Settings
- Launches the Settings dialog.

Show 'Getting Started' on home screen
- De-select to hide the Management Center Getting Started section from
the Server Overview screen when you next launch the console.

Communication Settings - Timeout
values are set to determine the amount of time the Management Console
should wait to get a response from the
Management Server, the default values are set to 60 seconds. Be aware
that if you set the value too low theManagement
Console may not be able to communicate with the server and if the value
is set too high then the Management Console may stall if there is a communications
issue.

General
Timeout value is used by the Management Console when communicating with
the Management Server.

Report
Timeout value is used by the Management Console when generating a report.

Details
- Launches the Server Details dialog which displays all of the server
details.